Kathleen Knight-Abowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 760375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen Knight-Abowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Knight-Abowitz |
| SIGNATURE | KNIGHT-ABOWITZ K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Miami University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0446-3243 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The right to invite and the right to decline: Parental rights in public schools
Parental rights are the subject of heated deliberation and policy-making in local, state, and national governing bodies. These debates are characterized by powerful disagreements regarding the role of parents, schools, and the interests of children and adolescents. Parents’ rights conflicts, contributing to the polarization and mistrust of public schools more broadly, demand a more nuanced and complex rendering of parenting, particularly as it fu…
Populismo, legitimidad y educación financiada por el Estado
En este artículo, analizo una muestra de las prácticas educativas actuales en los movimientos populistas educativos de Brasil, Estados Unidos e Israel. Tras un breve examen de estas formas de populismo, que revela tendencias políticas de nacionalismo étnico, ortodoxia religiosa, antisecularismo y autoritarismo, reviso la teoría democrática para interpretar el populismo desde una posición teórica democrática dual: pragmatismo, y teoría democrática…
Education reforms and democracy in Pakistan: The problem of privatisation
In many nations around the globe, including Pakistan, education is losing ground as a public good to become another market-based commodity as the state shrinks its responsibility to schooling. This presents challenges to democratic futures, and particularly for young democratic states such as Pakistan. The government of Pakistan is pouring a significant amount of money into the private provision of education, encouraged by the policies and invest…
Rhetoric and the purposes of public education: Building Discourse for Shared Responsibility
In this study, we employ discourse analysis of US gubernatorial political advertisements to analyze the discursive struggles over the purposes of public schools. The advertisements are analyzed to demonstrate how rhetoric works to shape consent for dominant, human capital views regarding schooling's purposes, as well as to communicate alternative articulations of schooling's purposes which can disrupt that consent. In the latter exploration, we d…
NeverAgainMSD Student Activism: Lessons for Agonist Political Education in an Age of Democratic Crisis
In this essay, Kathleen Knight Abowitz and Dan Mamlok consider the arguments for agonist political education in light of a case study based in the events of the 2018 mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and the subsequent activism of its survivors. We use this case to examine agonist expressions of citizenship, and to present an argument for framing agonist politics through the lens of Deweyan transactional communic…
Walker Percy's The Moviegoer: On the Existential Novel as Educational Text
In this essay, Kip Kline and Kathleen Knight Abowitz use Walker Percy's novel The Moviegoer to examine the existential plight of young Americans today who, as they turn the broad and long corner from youth to adulthood, are engaged in a search for self‐knowledge and identity construction. They are particularly interested in the young adult as “college student,” engaged in the work of postsecondary education, autonomous from but often still very c…
The case of #NeverAgainMSD: When proceduralist civics becomes public work by way of political emotion
Civic culture is a term for how citizens actively live out, perform, and create public life through our habits, actions, words, and public work. A vital civic culture, with an engaged citizenry, is one of the measures of a healthy democratic republic. In this inquiry, we explore how civic education—holistically envisioned across disciplines and types of curriculum—might be imagined in light of civic cultural engagement and creation. We use the re…
Faith, not fantasy: A response to Merry and New
In Memoriam: Dennis Carlson
The Fallacies of Flatness: Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat
Journal Article The Fallacies of Flatness: Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat Get access Kathleen Knight Abowitz, Kathleen Knight Abowitz Department of Educational Leadership, 304 McGuffey Hall, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056, USA Correspondence: Kathleen Knight Abowitz, Department of Educational Leadership, 304 McGuffey Hall, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Jay Roberts, Education and Wilderness Progr…
Moral Perception Through Aesthetics Engaging Imaginations in Educational Ethics
Moral "seeing"-the ability to take in the particulars of a moral encounter, and to interpret and imagine its implications-is analogous to aesthetic perception. This article defends and explores the use of aesthetic experiences in educational ethics classrooms as a way to enhance students' abilities to perceive and imagine moral situations and possibilities in their practice. Professional ethics pedagogy making use of aesthetic experiences and inq…
Contemporary Discourses of Citizenship
Meanings of “citizenship,” a concept that has informed teaching practices since nation-states first institutionalized schooling, are shaped over time and through cultural struggles. This article presents a conceptual framework for the discourses that currently construct the meanings of citizenship in contemporary Western cultures, particularly the United States. Using discourse analysis, the authors examine texts related to citizenship and citize…
Articles
Democratic Communities and Business/Education “Partnerships” in Secondary Education
Articles
A Pragmatist Revisioning of Resistance Theory
Resistance theorists in education urge educators to evaluate the moral and political potential of opposition in schools. The scholarship of resistance calls us to examine oppositional acts of students in school settings as moral and political expressions of oppression. Resistance theorizing over the past several decades has not, however, adequately explored the idea that resistance is communication; that is, a means of signaling and constructing …
Getting Beyond Familiar Myths: Discourses of Service Learning and Critical Pedagogy
Horatio Alger and Hip hop
The case of #NeverAgainMSD: When proceduralist civics becomes public work by way of political emotion
Civic culture is a term for how citizens actively live out, perform, and create public life through our habits, actions, words, and public work. A vital civic culture, with an engaged citizenry, is one of the measures of a healthy democratic republic. In this inquiry, we explore how civic education—holistically envisioned across disciplines and types of curriculum—might be imagined in light of civic cultural engagement and creation. We use the re…
A Pragmatist Revisioning of Resistance Theory
Resistance theorists in education urge educators to evaluate the moral and political potential of opposition in schools. The scholarship of resistance calls us to examine oppositional acts of students in school settings as moral and political expressions of oppression. Resistance theorizing over the past several decades has not, however, adequately explored the idea that resistance is communication; that is, a means of signaling and constructing …
Articles
Education reforms and democracy in Pakistan: The problem of privatisation
In many nations around the globe, including Pakistan, education is losing ground as a public good to become another market-based commodity as the state shrinks its responsibility to schooling. This presents challenges to democratic futures, and particularly for young democratic states such as Pakistan. The government of Pakistan is pouring a significant amount of money into the private provision of education, encouraged by the policies and invest…
Rhetoric and the purposes of public education: Building Discourse for Shared Responsibility
In this study, we employ discourse analysis of US gubernatorial political advertisements to analyze the discursive struggles over the purposes of public schools. The advertisements are analyzed to demonstrate how rhetoric works to shape consent for dominant, human capital views regarding schooling's purposes, as well as to communicate alternative articulations of schooling's purposes which can disrupt that consent. In the latter exploration, we d…
Articles
Getting Beyond Familiar Myths: Discourses of Service Learning and Critical Pedagogy
Horatio Alger and Hip hop
Getting Beyond Familiar Myths: Discourses of Service Learning and Critical Pedagogy
Democratic Communities and Business/Education “Partnerships” in Secondary Education
Articles
A Pragmatist Revisioning of Resistance Theory
Resistance theorists in education urge educators to evaluate the moral and political potential of opposition in schools. The scholarship of resistance calls us to examine oppositional acts of students in school settings as moral and political expressions of oppression. Resistance theorizing over the past several decades has not, however, adequately explored the idea that resistance is communication; that is, a means of signaling and constructing …
Articles
Contemporary Discourses of Citizenship
Meanings of “citizenship,” a concept that has informed teaching practices since nation-states first institutionalized schooling, are shaped over time and through cultural struggles. This article presents a conceptual framework for the discourses that currently construct the meanings of citizenship in contemporary Western cultures, particularly the United States. Using discourse analysis, the authors examine texts related to citizenship and citize…
Moral Perception Through Aesthetics Engaging Imaginations in Educational Ethics
Moral "seeing"-the ability to take in the particulars of a moral encounter, and to interpret and imagine its implications-is analogous to aesthetic perception. This article defends and explores the use of aesthetic experiences in educational ethics classrooms as a way to enhance students' abilities to perceive and imagine moral situations and possibilities in their practice. Professional ethics pedagogy making use of aesthetic experiences and inq…
The Fallacies of Flatness: Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat
Journal Article The Fallacies of Flatness: Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat Get access Kathleen Knight Abowitz, Kathleen Knight Abowitz Department of Educational Leadership, 304 McGuffey Hall, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056, USA Correspondence: Kathleen Knight Abowitz, Department of Educational Leadership, 304 McGuffey Hall, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Jay Roberts, Education and Wilderness Progr…
In Memoriam: Dennis Carlson
Faith, not fantasy: A response to Merry and New
The case of #NeverAgainMSD: When proceduralist civics becomes public work by way of political emotion
Civic culture is a term for how citizens actively live out, perform, and create public life through our habits, actions, words, and public work. A vital civic culture, with an engaged citizenry, is one of the measures of a healthy democratic republic. In this inquiry, we explore how civic education—holistically envisioned across disciplines and types of curriculum—might be imagined in light of civic cultural engagement and creation. We use the re…
NeverAgainMSD Student Activism: Lessons for Agonist Political Education in an Age of Democratic Crisis
In this essay, Kathleen Knight Abowitz and Dan Mamlok consider the arguments for agonist political education in light of a case study based in the events of the 2018 mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and the subsequent activism of its survivors. We use this case to examine agonist expressions of citizenship, and to present an argument for framing agonist politics through the lens of Deweyan transactional communic…
Walker Percy's The Moviegoer: On the Existential Novel as Educational Text
In this essay, Kip Kline and Kathleen Knight Abowitz use Walker Percy's novel The Moviegoer to examine the existential plight of young Americans today who, as they turn the broad and long corner from youth to adulthood, are engaged in a search for self‐knowledge and identity construction. They are particularly interested in the young adult as “college student,” engaged in the work of postsecondary education, autonomous from but often still very c…
Education reforms and democracy in Pakistan: The problem of privatisation
In many nations around the globe, including Pakistan, education is losing ground as a public good to become another market-based commodity as the state shrinks its responsibility to schooling. This presents challenges to democratic futures, and particularly for young democratic states such as Pakistan. The government of Pakistan is pouring a significant amount of money into the private provision of education, encouraged by the policies and invest…
Rhetoric and the purposes of public education: Building Discourse for Shared Responsibility
In this study, we employ discourse analysis of US gubernatorial political advertisements to analyze the discursive struggles over the purposes of public schools. The advertisements are analyzed to demonstrate how rhetoric works to shape consent for dominant, human capital views regarding schooling's purposes, as well as to communicate alternative articulations of schooling's purposes which can disrupt that consent. In the latter exploration, we d…
Populismo, legitimidad y educación financiada por el Estado
En este artículo, analizo una muestra de las prácticas educativas actuales en los movimientos populistas educativos de Brasil, Estados Unidos e Israel. Tras un breve examen de estas formas de populismo, que revela tendencias políticas de nacionalismo étnico, ortodoxia religiosa, antisecularismo y autoritarismo, reviso la teoría democrática para interpretar el populismo desde una posición teórica democrática dual: pragmatismo, y teoría democrática…
The right to invite and the right to decline: Parental rights in public schools
Parental rights are the subject of heated deliberation and policy-making in local, state, and national governing bodies. These debates are characterized by powerful disagreements regarding the role of parents, schools, and the interests of children and adolescents. Parents’ rights conflicts, contributing to the polarization and mistrust of public schools more broadly, demand a more nuanced and complex rendering of parenting, particularly as it fu…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Citizenship (3 works)